Holiday Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup real butter, softened
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups walnuts or 1 1/2 cups almonds, chopped
• 1 1/2 cups maraschino cherries

Recipe

• 1 cream together 1 1/2 sticks butter, sugar, cream cheese, and almond extract. mix well. add eggs, one at a time and mix well after each addition. add baking powder and flour, mixing well.
• 2 drain the cherries and chop in half and set aside 8 halves to decorate the top of the cake.
• 3 in a separate bowl, mix a small amount of flour with the cherries and fold into the cake mixture being careful not to crush. add the nuts,
• 4 pour the entire mixture into a 10-inch bundt pan and bake at 350f for 45 minutes - 1 hour. take the cake out of the oven and immediately turn upside down on a dish.
• 5 after the cake has cooled, glaze the top with a mixture of confectioners sugar and water. drizzle over the top of the cake allowing it to drip down the sides.
• 6 decorate with cherries and walnuts along the top.